Meet Our Heart Specialists

The Heart Institute is home to specialists with a wide variety of backgrounds and areas of focus. As a team, this diversity makes us better prepared to care for your child’s unique needs. Learn more about our faculty and staff.

Dr. Brown is a native of Louisville, KY and later graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Dayton with a degree in Biochemistry. Following completion of her medical degree at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, she stayed in Cincinnati for a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. Dr. Brown then completed her Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC before returning to Cincinnati once again to be the first Adult Congenital Heart Disease Fellow here. She has been on faculty at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center ever since and participates in a variety of clinical, educational, and research activities within the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's as well as at several neighboring hospitals.

Dr. Brown serves as an attending cardiologist for the Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD), Cardiovascular Genetics, and Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension teams. She is director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic as well as the ACHD Fellowship Program. Additionally, she is director of ACHD for the Center for Maternal Cardiac Care (CMCC) at TriHealth. Dr. Brown’s primary clinical interests include all forms of congenital heart disease, management of pregnancy in the setting of cardiovascular disease, pulmonary hypertension, and genetically-mediated aortic disease. Her research interests have thus far focused on obstacles to the care of ACHD patients and cardiovascular complications of Turner syndrome.

Amy has practiced in the field of adult cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery for over 14 years. She has served as a member on the Allied Health Professionals Credentialing Committee and Cardiac Surgery Quality and Performance Improvement Committee at The Christ Hospital. In 2010 Amy was awarded the Greater Cincinnati Health Council & American Society for Quality's Innovative Solutions Award for An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Glycemic Control in Cardiac Surgery Patients.

Martha "Marty"A.Tomlin

Marty has worked as a nurse practitioner in the ACHD Program at CCHMC since January 2006. She also continues to work PRN in the CICU at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center where she has over 21 years of experience. Marty also has served as an ACLS instructor for the past 10 years and previous adjunct nursing instructor at Raymond Walters College and Indiana Wesleyan University. She is a member of the Health Advisory Board of the Down Syndrome Association of Greater Cincinnati. Marty was most recently nominated for the Carol McKenzie Award for Excellence.

Gruschen R. Veldtman, FRCP, MBChB, is appointed in the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. His major achievement has been the establishment of patient and science centered clinical programs that serve adult patients with various complexity of congenital heart conditions. His major academic contributions have been in the field of liver disease as it relates to the Fontan circulation.

JonathanW.Byrnes,
MD

Academic Affiliations

Jonathan Byrnes, MD, is an assistant professor of pediatrics with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and an attending cardiac intensivist in Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center’s Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. He joined the faculty in July 2013.

A native of Mississippi, Dr. Byrnes graduated with honors from University of Mississippi and earned his medical degree from University of Mississippi Medical Center in 2005. He completed his pediatric residency at Blair Batson Children's Hospital in Jackson, MS and a combined fellowship in cardiology and critical care medicine at Arkansas Children's Hospital. Dr. Byrnes’s clinical interests are providing superb, cost-effective care and delivering cohesive management amongst all specialties in the cardiac intensive care unit.

Dr. Byrnes is active in clinical and translational research involving extracorporeal life support that would benefit critically ill children. This research is primarily focused on the biocompatibility of the patient / device interface and the associated interaction of the coagulation and inflammatory pathways. The aim of these endeavors is to ultimately decrease the incidence of end organ dysfunction and stroke associated with these therapies.

Dr. Cooper is board certified in pediatrics, pediatric cardiology and pediatric critical care. He is currently the Heart Institute safety officer, co-director of the Center for Acute Care Nephrology, director of the Cardiac ECMO Program and associate medical director of the CICU at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

Dr. Cooper's career over the past 10 years has focused on the care of critically ill neonates, infants, children, adolescents and adults with complex congenital heart disease (CHD). He has a particular interest in how care in the intensive care unit can impact morbidity with a specific interest in hematologic, infectious and renal morbidities. Additionally, Dr. Cooper has had extensive involvement with the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4), including the development of the PC4 CICU database that will be used to track outcomes and improve outcomes for patients with critical cardiac disease.

Research

Quality of life and neurodevelopmental outcomes in children with acquired and congenital heart disease; etiology of adrenal dysfunction in cardiac intensive care; inflammatory organ system injury after congenital heart surgery

David P. Nelson, MD, PhD, completed his fellowship in pediatric critical care at Harvard University, Boston Children’s Hospital. He served as the co-director of Cardiac Intensive Care at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center from July 1996 to August 2005. In September of 2005, Dr. Nelson served as the director of Cardiac Intensive Care at Texas Children’s Hospital for four years before rejoining Cincinnati Children's as the director of Cardiac Intensive Care in 2009.

His research focuses on quality of life and neurodevelopmental outcomes in children with acquired and congenital heart disease; etiology of adrenal dysfunction in cardiac intensive care; inflammatory organ system injury and congenital heart surgery.

Nick Pratap, MB BChir, is an assistant professor of anesthesia and pediatrics with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

A native of England, Dr. Pratap graduated with first class honors from the University of Cambridge. He earned his medical degree from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He undertook pediatric and anesthesia training, along with fellowships in pediatric anesthesia, pediatric critical care and congenital cardiac anesthesia in London, England.

Dr. Pratap has been an attending staff member of the Department of Anesthesia at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center within the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine since 2011. He joined the CICU in 2013.

Dr. Pratap's academic interests relate to reducing cancelation on the day of scheduled pediatric surgery and to improving outcomes after pediatric surgery through the use of novel technology.

Dr. Pratap has been active in the pediatric and cardiac anesthesia and pediatric critical care communities. He is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society and the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, as well as the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health and the Royal College of Anaesthetists in the United Kingdom.

Dr. Pratap serves on the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia's Quality and Safety Committee and the Sedation Taskforce of the Society for Critical Care Medicine. He is on the faculty for the Master of Science program in perioperative medicine at University College London, contributing to the Quality, Safety and Leadership module.

Dr. Pratap is an instructor and provider in Basic, Advanced Cardiac and Pediatric Advanced Life Support for the American Heart Association.

Dr. Jefferies, a professor of pediatric cardiology and adult cardiovascular diseases within the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, is the director of Advanced Heart Failure / Cardiomyopathy in the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

He completed his combined pediatric and adult cardiology training at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas at the Texas Children's Hospital and the Texas Heart Institute. He has authored or co-authored over 120 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters on cardiomyopathy, cardiovascular genetics, and adults with congenital heart disease.

His current research interests include heritable causes of cardiovascular disease, novel drug therapies for advanced heart failure, novel gene discovery in cardiomyopathy, characterization and management of left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC), and early diagnosis and management of chemotherapy induced cardiotoxicity.

He is on the editorial board of the Texas Heart Institute Journal and is an active member of numerous professional organizations, including the Heart Failure Society of America, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. He is the lead editor for two textbooks that focus on the management of heart disease in children and young adults entitled “Heart Failure in the Child and Young Adult: From Bench to Bedside” and “Cardioskeletal Myopathies in Children and Young Adults.”

Erin Miller is a licensed genetic counselor in the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Her clinical activities are focused in the arena of cardiovascular genetics with specific interests in pediatric cardiomyopathy, arrhythmia and aortopathy. Research interests include the impact of clinical genetic testing and cardiac screening recommendations on family members, genotype-phenotype correlations, and the integration of cardiovascular genetic counseling and evaluation into clinical cardiology care. She is currently serving as the lead genetic counselor for the NIH/NHLBI funded study lead by Dr. Steven Lipshultz, ‘Genotype-phenotype correlations in pediatric cardiomyopathy’. Erin also has an interest in training and education and serves as a clinical supervisor and research advisory committee chair for the University of Cincinnati Genetic Counseling Graduate Program. She is a member of the National Society of Genetic Counselors and Cardiovascular Special Interest Group.

Research

Thomas D Ryan, MD, PhD, was born and raised in Wichita, KS and graduated magna cum laude from Wichita State University in 1996 with a BS in biological sciences.

In 1997 he began training in the MD/PhD program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and studied the molecular, cellular, and whole organ aspects of cardiac remodeling in a rat model of volume overload. His general pediatrics residency training took place at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center from 2006-2009, as did his pediatric cardiology fellowship training from 2009-2012 and advanced fellowship in Pediatric Heart Failure/Transplant from 2012-2013. His clinical and research interests focus on heart failure, cardiomyopathy, cardiac transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support.

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Research

Care of children with advanced heart failure requiring mechanical circulatory support bridge to transplant; quality of life in children with heart failure, transplant and mechanical circulatory support (MCS); advanced strain imaging in evaluation of ventricular function in pediatric heart transplant patients.

Ivan Wilmot, MD, graduated summa cum laude from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Science in zoology.

In 1998 he began medical school at Emory University. His general pediatrics residency training took place at the Emory Affiliated Hospitals from 2002 to 2006. He completed his pediatric cardiology fellowship training from 2006 to 2009, and advanced fellowship in heart failure and transplant from 2009 to 2010.

His clinical and research interests focus on heart failure, cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory support (MCS).

Dr. James A. Quintessenza has built a reputation as one of the leading cardiothoracic surgeons in the U.S. He served All Children’s Hospital John Hopkins in St. Petersburg, FL, for 26 years; 19 of those years as medical director and chief of pediatric cardiac surgery.

Dr. Quintessenza's research goal is to provide insight into pulmonary valve replacement.

Certification: American Board of Surgery; American Board of Thoracic Surgery, Congenital Cardiac Surgery; American Board of Thoracic Surgery, Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery; National Board of Medical Examiners.

Dr. Tweddell leads the Heart Institute’s surgical team providing unparalleled surgical care and innovation for our patients and their families. Over the last 20 years, he built the pediatric cardiothoracic surgery program at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where he held the S. Bert Litwin Chair for Cardiothoracic Surgery position, served as medical director of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and professor and chief for the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Dr. Tweddell has an extensive list of vital research contributions, having authored more than 125 peer reviewed articles, published numerous books, chapters, invited reviews and editorials, and serving on multiple editorial boards and national committees.

Dr. Tweddell is the elite surgeon of his generation and has earned a worldwide reputation for outstanding clinical results based on team contributions to his outcomes. He decreased mortality following the Norwood procedure through the use of venous saturation monitoring and afterload reduction. In addition, Dr. Tweddell reduced interstage mortality of a single ventricle patient through the development of a home monitoring program.

Dr. Brown is a native of Louisville, KY and later graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Dayton with a degree in Biochemistry. Following completion of her medical degree at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, she stayed in Cincinnati for a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. Dr. Brown then completed her Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC before returning to Cincinnati once again to be the first Adult Congenital Heart Disease Fellow here. She has been on faculty at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center ever since and participates in a variety of clinical, educational, and research activities within the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's as well as at several neighboring hospitals.

Dr. Brown serves as an attending cardiologist for the Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD), Cardiovascular Genetics, and Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension teams. She is director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic as well as the ACHD Fellowship Program. Additionally, she is director of ACHD for the Center for Maternal Cardiac Care (CMCC) at TriHealth. Dr. Brown’s primary clinical interests include all forms of congenital heart disease, management of pregnancy in the setting of cardiovascular disease, pulmonary hypertension, and genetically-mediated aortic disease. Her research interests have thus far focused on obstacles to the care of ACHD patients and cardiovascular complications of Turner syndrome.

Erin Miller is a licensed genetic counselor in the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Her clinical activities are focused in the arena of cardiovascular genetics with specific interests in pediatric cardiomyopathy, arrhythmia and aortopathy. Research interests include the impact of clinical genetic testing and cardiac screening recommendations on family members, genotype-phenotype correlations, and the integration of cardiovascular genetic counseling and evaluation into clinical cardiology care. She is currently serving as the lead genetic counselor for the NIH/NHLBI funded study lead by Dr. Steven Lipshultz, ‘Genotype-phenotype correlations in pediatric cardiomyopathy’. Erin also has an interest in training and education and serves as a clinical supervisor and research advisory committee chair for the University of Cincinnati Genetic Counseling Graduate Program. She is a member of the National Society of Genetic Counselors and Cardiovascular Special Interest Group.

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Research

Carlos E. Prada, MD, is an assistant professor of clinical genetics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center within the UC Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Prada graduated from the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Bucaramanga, Colombia. He completed a combined pediatrics and human genetics residency at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, then completed a fellowship in clinical biochemical genetics there as well.

Dr. Prada divides his time between Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Fundación Cardiovascular in Bucaramanga, Colombia in South America. As an assistant professor of human genetics at Cincinnati Children's within the UC Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Prada spends the majority of his time caring for patients with genetic disorders. He participates in clinics from prenatal care to metabolic diseases. He is also actively involved in the education of health care providers regarding the application of genetics for patient care, including newborn screening.

In the Fundación Cardiovascular de Colombia, Dr. Prada is the director of the Center for Genomics and Metabolism. He is developing a newborn screening program in the state and genetic services for patients and their families. He has also become well known within the country of Colombia, speaking at conferences and visiting all major cities to see complex patients.

Dr. Prada also serves as the vice president of
the Colombian Association of Human Genetics.

Bryan H. Goldstein, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FAAP, joined the Heart Institute in 2011 in the section of Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention. A native of Boston, Mass., Dr. Goldstein graduated with honors from Amherst College, where he was a goalie on the men's lacrosse team. He earned his medical degree with honors from Boston University School of Medicine. He completed his pediatric residency at Children's Hospital Boston (BCRP) and his pediatric and interventional cardiology fellowships at the University of Michigan (C.S. Mott Children's Hospital) in Ann Arbor.

Dr. Goldstein’s research interests include novel transcatheter interventions and long-term outcomes following interventions for CHD. An additional research focus includes long-term functional outcomes in Fontan survivors, including investigations of vascular function and ventricular diastolic function in the Fontan population. Dr. Goldstein receives grant funding from the American Heart Association and NHLBI. He is a co-investigator for the Nit-Occlud® PDA Post-Approval Study and previously served as a co-investigator for the Melody™ Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Post-Approval Study.

Dr. Goldstein is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC), the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (FSCAI), and the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP) and an active member of the American Heart Association (AHA). He received the Pediatric Interventional Cardiology Symposium Young Leadership Award in 2013 and was recently honored with election to the Emerging Leader Mentorship program 2015-2017 through SCAI, ACC and CRF.

Gruschen R. Veldtman, FRCP, MBChB, is appointed in the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. His major achievement has been the establishment of patient and science centered clinical programs that serve adult patients with various complexity of congenital heart conditions. His major academic contributions have been in the field of liver disease as it relates to the Fontan circulation.

Shelley Kirk, PhD, RD, LD, is director of HealthWorks! and a staff member of the Center for Better Health and Nutrition, the obesity prevention program of the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Academic Affiliations

Robert M. Siegel is a professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati and medical director of the Center for Better Health and Nutrition of the Heart Institute. He graduated magna cum laude from Hunter College of the City University of New York and earned his MD from New York University. Dr. Siegel did his pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He was a general pediatrician for more than twenty years before joining the Heart Institute and was president of the Medical Staff at Cincinnati Children’s from 2008 to 2010. Dr. Siegel’s research interests include dietary and physical activity interventions in obese children.

Dr. Ippisch is a native of Ohio and completed her medical degree at Wright State University. She completed her pediatric internship and residency at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital in Loma Linda, California and completed her pediatric cardiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children's.

Dr. Ippisch's academic research interests relate to echocardiography, preventive cardiology, and pediatric obesity. She is a faculty member of the Cardiovascular Imaging Core Research Laboratory. She has given several presentations at national meetings relating to both the cardiac effects of pediatric obesity and to newer imaging modalities such as color M-mode and tissue Doppler imaging for assessing diastolic function. She is also a reviewer for the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography.

Dr. Ippisch is an alumni of the National Institutes of Health funded Master's Training Program. As part of this competitive program Dr. Ippisch concurrently completed a Master of Epidemiology Fellowship at the University of Cincinnati while attending her Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship at Cincinnati Children's. She has established collaborative relationships with faculty at the University of Cincinnati Department of Environmental Health.

Thomas R. Kimball, MD, is a professor of pediatrics with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and is currently the medical director of the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

A native of California, Dr. Kimball graduated with distinction and honors from Stanford University. He earned his medical degree from New York University, New York, NY. He completed his pediatric internship and residency at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles and his pediatric cardiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Dr. Kimball's academic interests relate to echocardiography and he has made numerous scholarly contributions in the field of ventricular function utilizing echocardiography, particularly in the field of hypertension and obesity.

He has established collaborative relationships with basic scientists at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine using echocardiography to evaluate phenotypes of transgenic mice, including embryonic mice.

Dr. Kimball has been active in the cardiology community. He is a member of the American Society of Echocardiography, American Heart Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Cardiology and an investigator in the NIH Pediatric Heart Network.

He was also a member of the first Family Advisory Council at Cincinnati Children's and received the 2006 Family Advisory Council Award of Excellence.

In 2016, he received an Endowed Chair from the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation for Clinical/Educational Achievements and Major Institutional Contributions. In 2016 he used the funds provided by this Chair to start a Coronary Artery Clinic which evaluates and manages children with coronary artery disease and anomalies.

Powell AW, Kimball TR. Incorrect ventricular lead placement into the systemic right ventricle of a patient with D-transposition of the great vessels after Mustard procedure.Cardiol Young. 2016 Aug;1-4.

Stacey Morrison, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, with specialized training and/or expertise in several areas. She has served as a multidisciplinary team member at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center since 2009. Dr. Morrison provides psychological evaluations and intervention for a wide range of developmental disorders. Her areas of interest include: ADHD, learning disorders, social skills, and executive functioning. Dr. Morrison also provides clinical services for LGBTQ adolescents and young adults, and works closely with the Transgender Clinic here at Cincinnati Children's.

Currently, Dr. Morrison provides psychological assessment and treatment within the Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology and the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's. She is a member of the Neurodevelopmental Education Clinic team, the Coronary Artery Clinic team, and a consulting psychologist for a spectrum of adult congenital heart disease. Dr. Morrison works with individuals and families from pediatric to adults, with the goal of improving patient self-management and quality of life. She continues to collaborate in this area and looks forward to developing quality improvement projects within the Heart Institute to improve psychological care and the transition to adult care for patients with congenital heart disorders.

Research

Dr. Cnota is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children's Hospital. His patient care activities focus on echocardiography and fetal cardiology. He is currently director of the Neonatal Cardiology service.

His clinical research focuses on two areas. He is the site principal investigator of the Prairieland Consortium within the NHLBI sponsored Pediatric Heart Network. He also studies growth and development in the fetus with congenital heart disease.

Academic Affiliations

Clinical

Pediatric cardiology; fetal and neonatal cardiology; echocardiography

Research

Echocardiographic predictors of cardiac involvement in the fetus with twin-twin transfusion syndrome; risk factors for intrauterine fetal demise in the fetus with congenital heart disease; improvement in the prenatal identification of fetal coarctation; prediction of atrial septal restriction in the fetus with HLHS

Allison A. Divanovic, MD, is an assistant professor of pediatrics with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and is currently the co-director of Medical Student and Resident Education in the Heart Institute.

A native of Cincinnati, Dr. Divanovic has completed all of her medical training locally, starting with medical school at the University of Cincinnati. She completed both her pediatric residency and cardiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. In addition to her three year cardiology fellowship, she completed a fourth year of training in order to gain further expertise in fetal echocardiography, transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, and neonatal cardiology.

Dr. Divanovic has been an attending staff member in the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center since 2009. Her academic interests include identifying factors that affect outcome in the setting of fetal congenital heart disease, improving the diagnosis of coarctation and hypoplastic left heart syndrome with restrictive atrial septum prior to birth and the cost effectiveness of referrals for murmur evaluations in children. In addition, Dr. Divanovic worked with the Ohio State Legislature to help pass into law the bill which led to the requirement for pulse oximetry screening in all Ohio newborns.

Dr. Divanovic has been active in the pediatric and cardiology communities as a member of the American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Research

Eunice Hahn is an assistant professor of pediatrics with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She is a faculty member that specializes in cardiac imaging.

Dr. Hahn earned her medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University. She completed her pediatric internship and residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and pediatric cardiology fellowship at Columbia-New York Presbyterian Hospital. She completed an advanced imaging fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Her clinical and research focus relates to cardiac imaging by echocardiography and fetal echocardiography.

Thomas R. Kimball, MD, is a professor of pediatrics with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and is currently the medical director of the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

A native of California, Dr. Kimball graduated with distinction and honors from Stanford University. He earned his medical degree from New York University, New York, NY. He completed his pediatric internship and residency at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles and his pediatric cardiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Dr. Kimball's academic interests relate to echocardiography and he has made numerous scholarly contributions in the field of ventricular function utilizing echocardiography, particularly in the field of hypertension and obesity.

He has established collaborative relationships with basic scientists at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine using echocardiography to evaluate phenotypes of transgenic mice, including embryonic mice.

Dr. Kimball has been active in the cardiology community. He is a member of the American Society of Echocardiography, American Heart Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Cardiology and an investigator in the NIH Pediatric Heart Network.

He was also a member of the first Family Advisory Council at Cincinnati Children's and received the 2006 Family Advisory Council Award of Excellence.

In 2016, he received an Endowed Chair from the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation for Clinical/Educational Achievements and Major Institutional Contributions. In 2016 he used the funds provided by this Chair to start a Coronary Artery Clinic which evaluates and manages children with coronary artery disease and anomalies.

Powell AW, Kimball TR. Incorrect ventricular lead placement into the systemic right ventricle of a patient with D-transposition of the great vessels after Mustard procedure.Cardiol Young. 2016 Aug;1-4.

Research

Sean Lang, MD, joined the Heart Institute in 2018. He was formerly at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. He specializes in advanced cardiac imaging, specifically cardiac MRI, as well as transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography. Dr. Lang’s research interests involve advanced imaging markers for assessing congenital heart disease and cardiomyopathies. His other research interests include appropriate clinical use of echocardiograms. Dr. Lang previously trained at The Heart Institute and was excited to rejoin the group as faculty. He is a member of the American Society of Echocardiography and the North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging.

Elisa Marcuccio, MD, joined Cincinnati Children's Hospital in 2017. She is an assistant professor of pediatrics with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She has expertise in transthoracic and fetal echocardiography as well as general inpatient and outpatient cardiology.

Prior to joining Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, she was formerly at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in Florida, and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.

Research

Christopher Statile, MD, is a pediatric cardiologist who has interest in clinical research in fetal cardiology. He has interest in extra-cardiac congenital lesions and their hemodynamic effects on the fetus. He is also interested in the prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease and the outcomes of those fetuses. He is also involved in quality improvement work in the echo lab.

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Michael Taylor, MD, joined the Heart Institute in July, 2010 as the director of Advanced Imaging Innovation. He was previously the director of cardiac magnetic resonance at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.

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Following his cardiology fellowship, Dr. Anderson helped establish the Syncope Clinic in the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and he continues to direct the work in this clinic.

Dr. Anderson helped develop the Safety, Quality, Value program within the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. The Heart Institute’s Safety, Quality, and Value team provides a platform of core data management, analytic, quality improvement, and project management expertise focused specifically on the Heart Institute’s strategic priority areas related to safety, quality, and value. This team serves a supporting role to further the Heart Institute’s ability to achieve its mission of being the leader in clinical outcomes, experience, and value for patients and families who receive diagnostic and interventional services for congenital and acquired heart disease.

Research

Dr. Cnota is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children's Hospital. His patient care activities focus on echocardiography and fetal cardiology. He is currently director of the Neonatal Cardiology service.

His clinical research focuses on two areas. He is the site principal investigator of the Prairieland Consortium within the NHLBI sponsored Pediatric Heart Network. He also studies growth and development in the fetus with congenital heart disease.

Academic Affiliations

Clinical

Pediatric cardiology; fetal and neonatal cardiology; echocardiography

Research

Echocardiographic predictors of cardiac involvement in the fetus with twin-twin transfusion syndrome; risk factors for intrauterine fetal demise in the fetus with congenital heart disease; improvement in the prenatal identification of fetal coarctation; prediction of atrial septal restriction in the fetus with HLHS

Allison A. Divanovic, MD, is an assistant professor of pediatrics with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and is currently the co-director of Medical Student and Resident Education in the Heart Institute.

A native of Cincinnati, Dr. Divanovic has completed all of her medical training locally, starting with medical school at the University of Cincinnati. She completed both her pediatric residency and cardiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. In addition to her three year cardiology fellowship, she completed a fourth year of training in order to gain further expertise in fetal echocardiography, transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, and neonatal cardiology.

Dr. Divanovic has been an attending staff member in the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center since 2009. Her academic interests include identifying factors that affect outcome in the setting of fetal congenital heart disease, improving the diagnosis of coarctation and hypoplastic left heart syndrome with restrictive atrial septum prior to birth and the cost effectiveness of referrals for murmur evaluations in children. In addition, Dr. Divanovic worked with the Ohio State Legislature to help pass into law the bill which led to the requirement for pulse oximetry screening in all Ohio newborns.

Dr. Divanovic has been active in the pediatric and cardiology communities as a member of the American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Research

Eunice Hahn is an assistant professor of pediatrics with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She is a faculty member that specializes in cardiac imaging.

Dr. Hahn earned her medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University. She completed her pediatric internship and residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and pediatric cardiology fellowship at Columbia-New York Presbyterian Hospital. She completed an advanced imaging fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Her clinical and research focus relates to cardiac imaging by echocardiography and fetal echocardiography.

Elisa Marcuccio, MD, joined Cincinnati Children's Hospital in 2017. She is an assistant professor of pediatrics with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She has expertise in transthoracic and fetal echocardiography as well as general inpatient and outpatient cardiology.

Prior to joining Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, she was formerly at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in Florida, and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.

Research

Christopher Statile, MD, is a pediatric cardiologist who has interest in clinical research in fetal cardiology. He has interest in extra-cardiac congenital lesions and their hemodynamic effects on the fetus. He is also interested in the prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease and the outcomes of those fetuses. He is also involved in quality improvement work in the echo lab.

TarekAlsaied,
MD

Academic Affiliations

Tarek Alsaied is an instructor for the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center within the UC Department of Pediatrics. He studied medicine at Damascus University and completed his pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children's. During his time as a resident, Tarek was the recipient of the Samuel Dalinsky Memorial Award, the Adolescent Medicine Resident Award and the Heart Institute Resident Award.

Research

Dr. Cnota is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children's Hospital. His patient care activities focus on echocardiography and fetal cardiology. He is currently director of the Neonatal Cardiology service.

His clinical research focuses on two areas. He is the site principal investigator of the Prairieland Consortium within the NHLBI sponsored Pediatric Heart Network. He also studies growth and development in the fetus with congenital heart disease.

Academic Affiliations

Clinical

Pediatric cardiology; fetal and neonatal cardiology; echocardiography

Research

Echocardiographic predictors of cardiac involvement in the fetus with twin-twin transfusion syndrome; risk factors for intrauterine fetal demise in the fetus with congenital heart disease; improvement in the prenatal identification of fetal coarctation; prediction of atrial septal restriction in the fetus with HLHS

Allison A. Divanovic, MD, is an assistant professor of pediatrics with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and is currently the co-director of Medical Student and Resident Education in the Heart Institute.

A native of Cincinnati, Dr. Divanovic has completed all of her medical training locally, starting with medical school at the University of Cincinnati. She completed both her pediatric residency and cardiology fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. In addition to her three year cardiology fellowship, she completed a fourth year of training in order to gain further expertise in fetal echocardiography, transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, and neonatal cardiology.

Dr. Divanovic has been an attending staff member in the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center since 2009. Her academic interests include identifying factors that affect outcome in the setting of fetal congenital heart disease, improving the diagnosis of coarctation and hypoplastic left heart syndrome with restrictive atrial septum prior to birth and the cost effectiveness of referrals for murmur evaluations in children. In addition, Dr. Divanovic worked with the Ohio State Legislature to help pass into law the bill which led to the requirement for pulse oximetry screening in all Ohio newborns.

Dr. Divanovic has been active in the pediatric and cardiology communities as a member of the American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Bryan H. Goldstein, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FAAP, joined the Heart Institute in 2011 in the section of Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention. A native of Boston, Mass., Dr. Goldstein graduated with honors from Amherst College, where he was a goalie on the men's lacrosse team. He earned his medical degree with honors from Boston University School of Medicine. He completed his pediatric residency at Children's Hospital Boston (BCRP) and his pediatric and interventional cardiology fellowships at the University of Michigan (C.S. Mott Children's Hospital) in Ann Arbor.

Dr. Goldstein’s research interests include novel transcatheter interventions and long-term outcomes following interventions for CHD. An additional research focus includes long-term functional outcomes in Fontan survivors, including investigations of vascular function and ventricular diastolic function in the Fontan population. Dr. Goldstein receives grant funding from the American Heart Association and NHLBI. He is a co-investigator for the Nit-Occlud® PDA Post-Approval Study and previously served as a co-investigator for the Melody™ Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Post-Approval Study.

Dr. Goldstein is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC), the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (FSCAI), and the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP) and an active member of the American Heart Association (AHA). He received the Pediatric Interventional Cardiology Symposium Young Leadership Award in 2013 and was recently honored with election to the Emerging Leader Mentorship program 2015-2017 through SCAI, ACC and CRF.

Research

Eunice Hahn is an assistant professor of pediatrics with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She is a faculty member that specializes in cardiac imaging.

Dr. Hahn earned her medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University. She completed her pediatric internship and residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and pediatric cardiology fellowship at Columbia-New York Presbyterian Hospital. She completed an advanced imaging fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Her clinical and research focus relates to cardiac imaging by echocardiography and fetal echocardiography.

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Dr. Hanke is an assistant professor in clinical pediatrics in the Heart Institute and a quality scholar in healthcare transformation with the James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence at Cincinnati Children’s within the UC Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Hanke received his medical degree from the University of Louisville and completed his pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children’s. He later served as pediatric chief resident before completing a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Cincinnati Children's.

His clinical areas of interest are as cardiac hospitalist and general outpatient cardiologist. Currently his research is in hospital care transitions, evaluating their potential impact on hospital readmissions in patients with congenital heart disease. Additionally, he is focused on the prevention of sleep related deaths in infancy and highly active in safe sleep education and advocacy.